[Wikipedia-l] Lists of book references and external links

[Akash Mehta]

Would it make sense to start a WikiProject for organising skilled
labour that can take basic data submitted by users and insert it into
articles in the form of cite templates in <ref>'s?

On 9/2/06, Matt Brown <morven at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 9/2/06, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
> > The cite templates are byzantine. I'm not going to figure them all out
> > any more than I'm going to learn every variety of stub template - I
> > know a few, but often I'll just put {{stub}} and let someone who wants
> > to pick the precisely correct one. I hope this comes across more as
> > "division of labour" than "too lazy to do it properly" ;-)
>
> Part of the Wiki way is the fact that your work doesn't have to be
> 'finished' before you put it up.
>
> In terms of the cite templates, someone who knows nothing about the
> actual reference should be able to turn a handwritten reference line
> into a templated one, so those who care about that can do it
> themselves.
>
> I've learned, personally, {{cite web}} and {{cite book}}'s
> fundamentals, and look stuff up from time to time.  I've also created
> subst:able templates for reference works I cite a lot, so I don't have
> to do the thinking.
>
> -Matt
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